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Best Poems From
FAITH ELIZABETH BRIGHAM
(May 14,1953)
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On Beauty
the eye sees what it wants to see
it is beauty and truth that i seek
a flower opening in the morning light
a child's laughter or a dog's delight
at it's owners return home
i see the Master's hand in everything
wherever my eyes roam
the mind believes what it wants to believe
and i still believe there is hope
as long as there is breath
in all beings large or small
i feel closest to my Maker
amongst nature and it's
endless array of radient beauty
and in the truth in the poet's pen
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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Only Words
painted lady laughing
longing for a ticket
to take a roller coaster ride
with memories of a
long lost lover
once aboard the
riverboat queen
who was swept
out to sea
she cries out
inaudible screams
hearing only words of
drunken sailors dreams
while twilight brings
her promise of
a new day all she feels
is loneliness and pain
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
Read more: lost poems, pain poems, sea poems, memory poems, dream poems
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Opposite Hounds
i'm the proud owner
of two opposite hounds
one is as thin as
the other is round
one gets up early
the other one sleeps in
one is real active
one is lazy as sin
if i had to pick
which one i like the best
i couldn't decide
they're just opposites
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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Outcast
God only knows
that could be me
bottle in hand
face down
in the street
he's been branded
by society
no doubt an outcast
in this age
of throw-away things
but no one
knows his pain
why must the drunkard
suffer for so long
a survivor in
a world gone wrong
why is he held
in such contempt
and not shown
a lttle mercy
skid row, skid row
it's the only
home he knows
gone are his hopes
and long forgotten dreams
left to die there
so it seems
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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